Count de Salis-Seewis

Gaudenz von Salis, current Count de Salis-Seewis (2005)

Dietegan Magnus à Salis (1473–1531), founder of the House of Salis-Seewis: .^[1]

Count de Salis-Seewis (also written Comte or Graf v. Salis-Seewis / Graf Salis-Seewis / Graf Salis / Gräfin von Salis / Graf von Salis) is a primogenitive title created in Versailles, France on 1 February 1777, while the title Graf (to follow the Count)^[2] was created in Vienna, Austria, 16 March 1915.^[3]

Comtes de Salis-Seewis (1777–1915)

Johann Gaudenz Gubert, second Count de Salis-Seewis. Soldier, statesman, and lieder writer or lyricist.

• 1) Johann Ulrich Dietegan (1740–1815), married (1760) Jakobea von Salis-Bothmar (1741–1791); 1st Count;^[4]
• 2) Johann Gaudenz Gubert, (Malans 1762 - Malans 1834), poet, married Ursina von Pestalozzi; 2nd Count;^[4][5]
• 3) Johann-Ulrich Dietegan (Chur 1794– Modena 1844), married Barbara von Cleric; 3rd Comte;^[4]
• 4) (kaiserlich und königlich Hauptmann) Johann Gaudenz Gubert Dietegen (Malans 26.1.1824–1873), married (Agram 1857) Wilhelmine von Vranyczany-Dobrinović (Severin/Agram 1839 - Karlstadt 28.12.1898), daughter of Ambros von Vranyczany-Dobrinović by Julie Tompa de Horsova; 4th Count;^[4]

Arms of Johann Gaudenz v Salis-Seewis : Salis-Seewis impaling, or quartered with, Salis-Bothmar. From a 1889 book cover, Adolf Frey's biography of the poet.

Bothmar, Malans, engraving from Adolf Frey's book, 1889.^[6]

Salishaus in Seewis.^[7]

Counts of Salis-Seewis (after 1915)

• 5) (Feldzeugmeister) Johann Ulrich Gaudenz Dietegen^[8] (Karstadt 1862-Zagreb 1940); military governor of Serbia,^[9] buried Mirogoju, 5th Count, 1st Graf;^[4]
• 6) Johann Gaudenz Peter Dietegan, (*Malans 4.3.1866-Zagreb 11.8.1941), married (Vienna 17.4.1899) Marie v. Liebenberg de Zsittin (Königsberg 1876-), daughter of Adolf von Liebenberg; lived in Salzburg. 6th Comte, 2nd Graf;^[4]
• 7) (His Excellency Monseignor) Francesco/Franjo/Franz Emil Dietegan (Karlovac/Karlstadt 1872–1967), Auxiliary Bishop^[10] of Zagreb/Agram, Yugoslavia, 1926–1967; critic of attempts to reconcile Catholic doctrine with evolution;^[11] 7th Count, 3rd Graf;
• 8) (Dr.) Hans-Wolf Wolf Eugen Rudolf (Malans 17.5.1887–1959), I.C.R.C.; married (Bern, 8.6.1895) Marguerite Freiin v. Salis-Soglio, daughter of Ferdinand Freiherr von Salis-Soglio by Elizabeth v. Muralt; 8th Count, 4th Graf;
• 9) Franz Ferdinand Rudolf Dietegan (Samedan 9.8.1921 - New York 24.1.2000), of West Caldwell, New Jersey; married (Zurich 19.5.1951) Evelyne Patricia Iselin (17.04.1926-), daughter of Henry Iselin of Hewlett Harbor, L.I., a former senior partner of Rusch & Company Factors in New York;^[12] 9th Count, 5th Graf;^[13][14]
• 10) Johann-Gaudenz Ulrich Dietegan (born 1936, Samedan), married Isabelle v. Graffenreid; 10th Count, 6th Graf. Swiss diplomat and ambassador.

Motto: Non auro sed virtute.

'Nächster Anwärter auf den Grafentitel' (next contender): Friedrich Heinrich Dietegan (born 1968).

Portraits of some of the Salis-Seewis

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  Dietegan, son of Dietegan Magnus: Envoy & Eques Auratus, Dietegan Freiherr à Salis (1510 or 1526–1590), Landvogt of Castels.^[1]

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  Colonel Dietegan (1651 – 1697 or 1679).^[1]

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  Johann Gaudenz Dietegan v. Salis-Seewis (1684–1751), Bundslandammann. Father of 1st Comte de Salis-Seewis.^[1]

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  Katharina à Clericis, from 1734, wife to J.G.D. v. Salis-Seewis (1684–1751). Mother of 1st Comte.^[2]

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  1st Comte. Johann Ulrich Dietegan (1740–1815).^[1]

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  Jakobea v. Salis-Bothmar (1741–1791), wife to J.U.D. (1740–1815).^[1]

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  Ursina à Pestalozzi, wife to the poet Johann Gaudenz Gubert (1762–1834).^[1]

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  2nd Comte. General, statesman, poet. Johann Gaudenz Gubert (1762–1834).^[1]

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  4th Comte. Johann Gaudenz Gubert Dietegen (1824–1873).^[1]

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  Freiherr John Gaudenz Dietegan v. Salis-Seewis (1825–1886), of Malans, Member of the Swiss Federal Council. Nephew of the 3rd Comte. Son of Johann Jacob (Zurich 1800- Chur 1881). Uncle of the 8th Comte.^[1]

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  Gubert Abraham Dietegan (Malans 1835–1899), of the Ruchenberg, Malans. Lt. in Sicilian service. Married Agathe Maria Sprecher von Bernegg (Luzein, 1842–1903). Ancestor of the next in line.^[1]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Cite error: The named reference Chur1884 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
2. ^ Photographien der Bilder von Vorfahren der Familie von Salis, Chur, 1884.

Brothers of the Poet

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  Gubert Dietegan Abraham (1767–1840), a son (2nd?) of 1st Comte.^[1]

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  Hercules Dietegan (1770–1847), a son (3rd?) of 1st Comte.^[1]

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  Johann Ulrich Dietegan (1777–1817), chroniker, a son (4th?) of the 1st Comte.^[1]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Cite error: The named reference Chur1884 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Ancestor table of present Comte

References

1. ↑ Photographien der Bilder von Vorfahren der Familie von Salis, Chur, 1884.
2. ↑ ("...und nach ihm für alle jene Mitglieder seiner Familie, denen auf Grund des franz. Diploms die Führung des Titels Comte zukommen wird mit dem Hinzufügen, dass seine evtl. Nachkommen und seine Geschwister sich des Frhrntitels und derselben Namensschreibweise prävalieren dürfen," Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Gräfliche Häuser, Band XIX, 2009)
3. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Band 146, Gräfliche Häuser XIX, 2009, XXVIII + 619 Seiten, 50 Bilder davon 11 farbig, 37 Genealogien. Folgende Familien sind enthalten: Buquoy, Bussche-Ippenburg gen. v. Kessell, Calice, Ceschi, Dezasse de Petit-Verneuil, Eltz, Finck v. Finckenstein, Flemming-Benz, Galen, Groeben, Hohenthal, Korff, Lanjus v. Wellenburg, Lanjus v. Wellenburg (2007, 2009), Lüttichau, Maltzan und Maltzahn v. Plessen, Manzano, Matuschka (Matuschka Greiffenclau), Mengersen, Mengersen-Robiano, Nostitz, Piatti, Plettenberg, Praschma, Preysing, Rantzau, Reischach, Rex, Salis, Saurma, Seherr-Thoß, Spee, Strachwitz, Sztáray, Wedel, Wolff Metternich, Zedlitz u. Trützschler; ISBN 978-3-7980-0846-5, pages 396 & 428.
4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stammbaumes der Familie von Salis von Anton von Sprecher, Chur, 1941
5. ↑ Johann Gaudenz von Salis–Seewis und Johann Heinrich Füßli in ihren Briefen, hrsg. v. Felix Humm. Huber, Bern u.a. 1976.
6. ↑ Adolf Frey, 'J. Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis', Frauenfeld, 1889.
7. ↑ de:Seewis im Prättigau
8. ↑ http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/biog/salisseewis.html
9. ↑ Mitrović, Andrej (2007). Serbia's Great War, 1914–1918. Purdue University Press. p. 203. ISBN 9781557534767. 
10. ↑ Tanner, Marcus (2001). Croatia: A Nation Forged in War. Yale University Press. p. 178. ISBN 9780300091250. 
11. ↑ Artigas, Mariano; Glick, Thomas F.; Martínez, Rafael A (2006). Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877–1902. JHU Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780801883897. 
12. ↑ New York Times, June 27, 1982
13. ↑ Der Grafliche Hauser, Band XI [volume 11], Genealogisches Handbuch Des Adels, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1983 (pps 331-356). Link to description of the above book.
14. ↑ New York Times, 26 January 2000
15. 1 2 3 Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, 1910, Justus Perthes, Gotha.